C road crash in St Albans AL4 on 11 June 2015 at 08:00 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in St Albans at 08:00 on Thursday 11 June 2015. The 36-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jun 2015
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.7514, longitude -0.26556, in the AL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smallford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Colney Heath, St Albans, AL4 0RU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in St Albans
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20154100F0361
- Council area
- St Albans
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2000.
Slight
MG MGF crash on a C road in St Albans, 23 August 2000
5 m awayRef 20004100F0395
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 7 October 2021
12 m awayRef 2021411099822
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in St Albans, 15 November 2011
12 m awayRef 20114100F0791
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 5 October 2016
15 m awayRef 2016410119201
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in St Albans, 2 June 1985
33 m awayRef 19854141B3068
Slight
Car crash on a C road in St Albans, 28 April 1990
33 m awayRef 19904141B0319
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 20154100F0361 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St Albans road accident statistics for 2015.